Hezbollah has finally confirmef the killing of its leader Sayeed Hassan Nasrallah in the Israeli attack on Friday.
The confirmation came shortly after the Israeli military announced it had killed the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah
when it hit the group’s leaders at their headquarters in south Beirut.
“Hassan Nasrallah is dead,” military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani had announced on X this Saturday.
According to the Israeli army, at least 45 were killed in Israeli strike on suburb in Lebanon’s Beirut among were the Leader, Nasrsllah, the commander of Hezbollah’s southern front, Ali Kharki as well as additional Hezbollah commanders were also killed in the massive air strike.
“Most of the senior leaders of Hezbollah have been eliminated,” Shoshani said.
The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health said a total of six people were killed and 91 injured in the bombardment, which levelled six apartment buildings. Israeli air attacks continued to hammer Beirut’s southern suburbs and other areas of Lebanon on Saturday, with Israel’s military claiming to hit more than 140 Hezbollah targets.
Al jazeera reports have that, “Hassan Nasrallah is a larger-than-life figure when it comes to the politics in the Middle East. He is the figurehead, Iran’s linchpin, if you will,” said Al Jazeera’s Stefanie Dekker. “He really created Hezbollah into the organised fighting, disciplined force that it is today.”
Nasrallah, 64, has led the Iran-backed group for more than 32 years, serving as a political and spiritual leader guiding Hezbollah to a place of prominence in Lebanon.
Among his supporters, the Shia leader is lauded for standing up to Israel and defying the United States. To his enemies, he is the head of a terrorist organisation and a proxy for Iran in its tussle for influence in the Middle East.
